Chapter 184:

Chapter 184:

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The remnants of the Governor-Generals Office agreed to surrender unconditionally.

We solemnly declare the founding of a democratic republic, the Republic of Korea, where Koreans are the masters of the Korean Peninsula!

Wow!!

After occupying Gyeongseong, the Provisional Government Committee announced the declaration of the Republic of Korea and formed a new government.

Kim Won-bong, the commander of the Independent Korean Armored Division under the Soviet Army, became the commander-in-chief of the Republic of Korea Army and declared that he would subjugate the Japanese who still had a stronghold in the southern part of the peninsula.

The Japanese in the areas liberated by the national army were taken prisoner and placed in prisoner-of-war camps in various places.

The Japanese government was shocked by the annihilation of the Governor-Generals Office and the occupation of Gyeongseong in an instant.

Our compatriots who were in the Japanese archipelago are returning home through Wonsan Port. A vanguard of 20,000 people is returning first

Realizing that it was meaningless to resist any longer, they decided to call in at least some troops to prepare for the final battle on the mainland.

Even excluding the 120th Division that was defeated in Gyeongseong, there were still three divisions and one brigade deployed, and if necessary, there were more than 700,000 people who could be conscripted.

None of them wanted to leave their homes and return to the mainland that had become a battlefield, but most of them were chased away by angry people.

When the Koreans who had been robbed of their land, their markets, and everything else came back, the Japanese had to flee.

Southward, southward, the procession of refugees continued.

The national army pointed tanks and machine guns at the refugees and prevented them from doing anything rash.

Of course, they also had the role of stopping the people from throwing stones and garbage at the refugees.

Come on, come on, lets go!!

Wow! Long live the Republic of Korea! Long live the national army!

Hahaha, thank you! Now, please make way!

Thousands of people returning home and thousands of people leaving.

The shadow of war was now deeply cast on the civilians as well.

Most of the returning Koreans talked about the situation on the Japanese mainland.

Ugh. Those evil bastards, now that the end is near, theyre doing all kinds of things.

The cities are all on fire, the countryside is all dried up and dead with rice and barley

The United States had developed a taste for defoliants and mines, and after securing air supremacy over the Japanese archipelago, they sprayed all sorts of things on Japan.

Mines, herbicides, aerial bombs, and napalm. The bombing became even worse after the latest B-29 heavy bombers were deployed.

The Kwantung Plain was no longer in a state to expect a harvest. In a situation where the horizon was filled with yellowish dried crops, the farmers cried out, and in the meantime, they raised their sickles and iron bars against the government officials who were taking away the last food.

The workers also rebelled against the order to defend the factory until the end, even as the bombs fell. The factory manager who threatened to cut off all the wages if they didnt meet the production quota by tomorrow, the workers who went on strike because they couldnt afford to live, the army and the government who pointed guns at them. The soaring rice prices and the starving people

Anyway, it was hell there sigh, Im glad I made it back alive.

Long live the Republic of Korea, long live! Thank you for saving me!

The returnees expressed their full support for the government that had negotiated them out of the hellish Japanese archipelago.

They had left their livelihoods behind, but most of them thought that Korea was better than Japan, where the rice prices were soaring and the food shortage was severe, whether they were there or here.

And Japan was getting closer and closer to hell.

Meanwhile, in the south of Japan, a hellish clash was unfolding.

Without a breather after the Battle of Iwo Jima, the US forces led by MacArthur launched Operation Downfall.

First, we will secure the southern part of this island, Kyushu, and build an air base that can bomb Honshu, the largest island, intensively.

Operation Downfall consisted of two parts.

One was Operation Olympic, which involved landing on Kyushu, the southernmost of the four islands that make up Japan.

The Japanese army deployed on the Chinese mainland was mostly crushed by the joint offensive of the Soviet and Chinese armies. The Soviet army occupied the Korean Peninsula and Hokkaido

Enough with those bastards. Tell me the next thing.

Yes, Your Excellency. Ahem Operation Olympic will end with securing these two places by landing. After setting up a temporary pier in Kagoshima Bay and building an airstrip on the Miyazaki Plain, we will start the next operation, Operation Coronet, within 20 days.

Eisenhower briefed the operation with a strained expression.

This kind of super-large landing operation had never been carried out before, and all the generals seemed tense.

It was tense enough to deploy 400,000 troops, dozens of battleships, hundreds of cruisers and destroyers, and over 3,000 aircraft.

MacArthur, who wore sunglasses and chewed on a pipe, also seemed nervous as he fidgeted his hands.

Then Operation Coronet we will land at two points in front of Tokyo, on the mainland. Here, up to a million troops and over 5,000 various aircraft will be deployed. The pre-emptive shelling will also mobilize the warships that were involved in the operation as soon as the enemy forces on the coast are eliminated.

They couldnt believe the enormous scale of the force, which was different from the digits.

But MacArthur was different.

What are you doing? Go and get ready!

Yes, yes! Understood, Commander-in-Chief!

Did he think he had to deal with this scale of things every day if he became the president of the United States? He looked defiant even though he was tense, and he urged his subordinates.

We have to occupy Japan before those damn Reds eat it all! Whos going to fly the flag in Tokyo, our great United States of America!

He had said something similar in Iwo Jima.

And on the coast of Iwo Jima, where volcanic ash flew and feet sank, nearly 10% of the tens of thousands of marines who landed were injured and several times that were wounded and evacuated.

Now, this operation involved more than 100,000 marines and hundreds of thousands of soldiers. How many marines would have to die for MacArthurs ambition? How many soldiers died and would die on the coast of a strange island?

Is there no support from the Soviet Union?

Ah, yes. That issue is still being discussed by the higher-ups

What the hell are you talking about! Thats our spoils! We have to get our hands on it!

MacArthur threw his pipe and started to shout. In his head, Japan was already in the hands of the United States.

Look at those Soviet bastards tearing Germany apart. How much can we get from Japan! Do you think were going to hand it all over to the Soviet Union?

He had received some lobbying from the capitalists, or he was foaming at the mouth. Some nodded in agreement.

But a considerable number still looked sullen. How many soldiers would have to die was excluded from MacArthurs calculation. Based on the previous cases, at least tens of thousands, if not more.

Sir Commander-in-Chief?

What is it, Dwight?

A message from the homeland. It says here [The Soviet bombing is scheduled, so postpone the landing operation by at least a week].

What?